What's the underrated quote that will stick with you for life?

Work smarter, not harder.

Scrooge Mc Duck

"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source" - Iroh
And
"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now." - Hitchhikers Guide
Dont think about things too much. Just accept it, and change accordingly with a response
- Also from H2G2, behold the majestic : " -Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
  -And are you?
  -Ah. No. Well that's where it all falls down, of course "
  I like it even better in the movie, Bill Nighy embodies this sentence perfectly.
- Came for the second, stayed for the first

You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago. - Alan Watts

"Don't let perfect be the enemy of good."
I would be so far ahead of where I am right now if I had just decided on a course and committed instead of analyzing all the choices to death.

Dad told me when I was young to "learn to drink your coffee black and cold and you'll never be disappointed."
I don't think he was just talking about coffee.
- As in have low expectations of everything?
  
  More like be grateful for what you're given

Men are scared that women will laugh at them , women are scared that men will kill them.

"Don't follow people - follow ideas" which seems more relevant today than ever before it seems.
- I think there is a quote somewhere from someone that says people talk about people, smarter people talk about facts and even smarter people talk about ideas. I am probably murdering the quote, but it was something like that.
  It makes sense though, talking about other people doesn't really provide much direction in life. Facts do provide more direction in life, but ideas really function as a pointer in a lot of situations when may not know what to do otherwise.
  
  https://www.azquotes.com/author/12603-Eleanor_Roosevelt
  
  Yeah this quote really pivoted my life to a strong cosmopolitan view. By detaching ideas from people you can pick and choose and design your own philosophy and direction without attachment to exact people or inherited culture.
  This is quite liberating mentally as solving cognitive dissonance is very expensive and theres an incredible amount of cognitive dissonance required to follow people who are often flawed or have conflicting ideas attached to them.
- I feel like this is most appropriate with politicians. No politician will be everything you want, but if they have a few policies you're into, they're worth your vote.
  
  I think it applies outside of politics as well like art and even business.

- Rewatched that recently. I was really surprised how dark it sometimes gets for a kids' show. It still holds up really well!

It’s always darkest before the dawn.
How I interpret it is that when things get bad, and reach a new level of bad, that could be just what is needed for the pendulum to swing the other way, and swing extra hard.
Kind of like a Great Depression giving labour laws kind of a thing.
Gives me hope.

The worst decisions make the best stories. - *Unknown *

It’s a poem by Stephen Crane, but so short I’m often reminded of it in full:
A man said to the universe:
”Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
It sounds nihilistic, but it’s somehow calming whenever I start to feel like I’ve been wronged or I’m owed a break of some sort.

Hold on tightly, let go lightly.
The Croupier in Croupier.
It doesn't come with extra instructions, so it means what I want it to mean and someone else may have it mean something else entirely. For me it means hold on to the important things tightly while they are important and when they aren't then it is time to let them and other things go.
Don't carry things that don't need to be held onto, especially if you can't control them. I hold onto the memories of my sister both good and bad, I embrace the pain of her not being here anymore when they come, then I let the pain go because I keep ahold of the happiness she brought into people's lives while she was here.
- Hmmm. I'll try to remember this one, thank you, that's a real gift.

Golf: A nice walk, ruined.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Those who know history are doomed to know it's repeating.
It's the second part that makes this otherwise well know phrase hit much closer to home for me.

Sadly, pretty much all struggles against a common oppressor take on heavy identity characteristics and have the accompanying problems. It's the main reason they don't work immediately.
Anyway, probably "What I cannot build, I don't understand", by Richard Feynman (although the exact wording varies by source). If I write a book that's probably going to take up the first page.

"Everything you want in life has teeth", by the writer Jonathan Carroll. I believe it means that everything you pursue will hurt you in some way.

You can't leave the party if you can't find the door. Randall Jacobs, aka Uncle Bunky
obituary, worth reading

I got two. First is just Hanlon's razor; "Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"
The second one is a bit of a strange pick; its "But there's no sense crying over every mistake; You just keep on trying till you run out of cake."
- Another version I've heard is "When you suspect a conspiracy you often only find incompetence"
- I hate Hanlon's Razor. It's used as an excuse by and for too many malicious people lately.

Fortune favors the bold.
It was written in a graduation card from my grandfather.

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it." -Seneca
When we complain about not having enough time, we think of ourselves as being passively allocated an insufficient resource. But maybe the problem isn't that life is too short, but that we waste much of the time we're given.
I think this is relevant in these modern times more than ever. How much of our time goes to mindless scrolling, worrying about things beyond our control, or pursuing goals that don't truly align with our values? We should be thinking about the difference between being busy and spending time meaningfully.
And that's not to say all time spent should be something "productive". Leisure time can be meaningful. But I think it's worth even thinking about that. Are you truly happy with how you choose to spend your leisure time when you watch 100 short videos you probably won't even remember? Or when you sit there getting angry or depressed about article after article after article? I think it's worth thinking about.

"Do to others as you want done too you" Wouldnt say its under rated just not actually followed by the masses that preach it but i prefer to say "dont treat people how you wouldnt want to be treated"
- IMO some people take this too literally. Just because you want to be treated a certain way doesn't mean other people want to be treated that way.
  
  While that is true. i think it's more on a deeper level that everyone just wants to be loved.

Something my grandpa said, sometime around 2006-2007 I think.
"The next world war, will be between the rich and and the poor, and the rich will win before the poor knows there's a war."
- This is unfortunate, but at the rate we are currently going this might come into fruition. 😢
  
  I believe the first part is already occuring, it's the last half that I hope is wrong.
- i mean that's been every war to date except some revolutions 😂

"Hurt people hurt people"
Ever since I heard this, I became relatively more compassionate towards people, even if they piss me off.
- It is very true, and how trauma is passed on from generation to generation. If you can skip a generation or escape the trauma you are essentially the stopping point of that trauma.
- This makes a song I've been listening to make more sense. "Gary" by Dave Hause. I was interpreting the line as "Hurt People. Hurt people..." Instead of "Hurt people hurt people". Thanks!
- "If they knew better, they'd do better."
- But who hurt elon?
  
  Having untold wealth is actually not that good for you in a lot of cases. Generally, getting everything you want all the time is not good for your brain.
  
  His father is a real piece of shit. Like evej when compared to Elon. But also he grew up in a society defined by a particular level of violence. Even though he was the privileged group there the violence was still present and there was violence to all, including the violence to teach the white children to be the oppressors.
  
  I mean, he's autistic in addition to being a bad person, so probably a large collection of people throughout his life who may or may not have even comprehended his side of the interaction. Comorbidity of autism with severe mental health problems is stupid high.
  That being said, the cycle would have died out long ago if some people weren't dicks for no reason as well.
- Yes. It's a doozy but true.

The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy.
Truly hating something takes passion, energy and time out of your day. It also taught me that for masters of personal interest, if you truly need to end a relationship with someone, you simply stop responding. It’s far more effective than loudly proclaiming what you feel they do wrong. That will take far more away from you than if you cut ties.
- the opposite of 2 is not 0

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." ~ Kurt Vonnegut

"Feelings are like children, you can't let them drive, but you can't put them in the trunk."
But I feel that one has a ¨spiritual parent¨:
"Educate a child so you don't have to reprimand an adult."
and a ¨spiritual sibling¨:
"If your only tool is a Hammer then every problem looks like a Nail."
- This one’s my favourite

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." -A clump of talking stars in Futurama I look at it like being a good custodian or someone who takes pride in the smallest details of their work, regardless of whether or not you receive recognition for them. Most people don't notice the effort being put in when things are running smoothly. The work of the people behind the scenes is directly responsible for successes in the spotlight.
- This is what IT feels like. Everything is working? What do we pay those guys for?
  Everything is not working? What do we pay those guys for?
- That's a loose quote from the Tao te ching.
  
  Interesting. Something new to look up!

"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart." - Winnie-the-Pooh
I didn't read Winnie-the-Pooh till I was an adult and when I read this it felt like reading a universal truth everyone should know. It nearly brought me to tears.
- It sounds like you might like "The Tao of Pooh".

The less you know about your history, the easier it is to imagine you'd always be on the right side of it.

"It'll never be the same"
\ In context, meaning that things can never go back to the way they were... Ever.
For me it's like a grounding statement. Whenever I start thinking about some past time and just want things to go back to how they were, I remember this. My mind shifts to the future and I forget that nostalgic feeling because I remember that it can never be.
- Oh, yeah. There's another one like this for me, a very short poem I read when I was a teenager :
  "Ah, what are they dreaming...? Those who say, say, say... Yesterday I was there, today I was here"

That'll do Donkey.. That'll do.
Edit. I mean it. That calming way shrek says it. The idea that enough has been done, and that everything is OK. That I'm ok. It's a lovely, and powerful moment in the film that translates to so many day to day situations.
- Have you seen Babe? That's where that quote is from originally
  
  I say "That'll do pig" almost daily. It's basically a tic for me at this point.
  
  I have yes. And I'd forgotten. Thank you. Adds an extra layer.
  
  I love that movie. Super disappointed that the pig was essentially a baby. They didn't have a adult pig in that movie to showcase how big they get.
  I wanted a pig as a pet but the smallest pigs are 150 lbs!
- That's so lovely!

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang best

Comparison is the thief of joy. I think a lot of people could do with that one.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell, 1984

"They say, 'Evil prevails when good men fail to act.' What they ought to say is, 'Evil prevails.'
Bleak quote from Lord of War that has stuck with me. Reminds me of Sophie Scholl.
- I am reminded of: "The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone."
  The lesser known conclusion to Wilhoits Law.
  https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/
  "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
  There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

"(S)cience tends to progress through younger people, and old ideas tend to die with the originators of those ideas. through this cynical view, science progresses one coffin at a time."
the Sting of the wild p142, J.O. Schmidt

Be excellent to each other and party on dudes.
Genuinely how I try to live my life, be kind and helpful to others and enjoy myself doing it.

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt" - Often wrongly attributed to Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln but the earliest record is Maurice Switzer
- Mine is similar, but said by Plato. ”Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something”

"Who's 'we', paleface?"
It's from a silly joke, so it's not meant to be taken seriously. But I remember it every time some politician or Internet dweller or anything in between uses "we" to describe a position, an opinion, etc. Who's 'we'? Do you dream to speak for others, for me? In my stead?
- Love this one. Used to teach students in political science about the horrible thing that "political ventiloquism" is.

“No matter where you go, there you are.”
Made absolutely no sense to me when I was younger. Now, I get that it means changing one’s location or situation in an effort to avoid something doesn’t work. You’re still you, you’re there, and the problem still exists. Obviously some situations can be improved by leaving them, so the statement isn’t completely correct, but there’s plenty of truth to it.
“You can never go home again” also used to bug me, because of course you can physically return to the places you grew up. But if you’ve been away a good while the place you grew up in might have changed, the people will have changed, and you will also have changed. Home will be where you have made a new life. Your old home will be like trying to put on a shoe you haven’t worn in a few years. Yeah, it fits, but it doesn’t feel right. It’s not comfortable like it used to feel. Home isn’t there anymore. I kinda envy some people that I know who never left my hometown. They have the same friends, been hanging out for years, still get together for family stuff…but at the same time I’ve experienced a shitload more than they have. My original home doesn’t exist for me anymore.
- My wife struggles with that second one a lot and I wish I knew how to help her.
  
  Apologies for the ramble/off my chest shit.
  
  Sorry you and your wife are dealing with that. Kinda reminds me of an old saw: within two years of marriage you will move to within two miles of your mother in law. Sounds like maybe that’s what your wife was after with the support structure of family. FWIW “benefits” might be subjective…what one person considers beneficial may not have the same importance to another.
- "You can never go home again... but you can shop there."

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale
Someone shared the phrase "The time will pass anyway" with me back when I was working on getting healthier. It was a constant reminder that there was no "best" day to start my journey and that anytime I was set back, I could pick things back up right away.
- I have people in my life who think my level of patience is superhuman or some shit, but it's just this. Don't think about what you're working towards, just what you should be doing today.
  It seems simple to me, but I guess it's not to them.
- With that username and that quote, I expect that you are (like me) in your 60s.
  
  The original anime.

Mine is not as deep as yours and kind of cheesy since you see them in posters, Tshirts and stickers etc. it’s “pain is temporary, glory is forever.” This sentence helped me get through college while working mad hours just to pay for my tuition while writing essays and studying for exams. I would repeat this over and over to myself just to get through that day or moment hoping things would be better.
- "Bones heal, chicks dig scars, and the United States of America has the best doctor to daredevil ratios in the world!"
  
  Thanks Lance Murdock!

I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned.
Richard Feynman

Not so much a quote as a poem, but it's brief so here's the whole thing:
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man, It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.
"This Be the Verse" by Philip Larkin
As for what it means to me, I think it speaks for itself. It's bleak and devastating, yet beautiful. I love the elegance and simplicity of the writing. It's the only poem I have memorized because it's so aesthetically pleasing and emotionally resonant. It has stuck with me since I first heard it over 10 years ago.
- It's beautiful and I can understand why it sticks.. Thanks for letting us know!!

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. -- Franz Kafka

Never tie your identity to something that can be taken away. Re: job title, salary, perceived status. Your self perceived identity should have a much more stable foundation.
- Pirate Softeware?
- I like it. Remember where it's from?
  
  A former mentor of mine, and I found it rather compelling the more I reflected on the implications.

It's not a party if it happens every night

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim, swim
Underrated Dory wisdom

It is said that cameras don't lie, but we must remember that liars use cameras. - Michael Parenti
This is a statement on the bias of all media, i like to use the same quote regarding statistics too.
- I've heard that something like 67.3% of statistics are made up on the spot and 95.2% of people believe then whether they're accurate or not - especially if there's a decimal involved.
  
  Even if its not straigh up made up, data can be easily manipulated by omission of other data, disingenous presentation (countries military spending graphs for example), outdated methodology, or straigh up meaningless indexes (freedom index lmao).
  There are just way too many ways to manipulate data to paint a narrative and people that are just politically asleep, think of STEM area people, are easily fooled by these tactics.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
~ Camus

"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" - Stephen Daedalus in Ulysses by James Joyce.

You don't need to do everything every day. Some days, surviving is enough.

"Time flies, time crawls You're a prisoner trapped between its claws Life sucks, sometimes You gotta learn to live between the lines"
Pretty much as written. Time marches forward no matter how I feel about it. My best friend died, people still sat in traffic on the way to work. My wife said she wanted a divorce, the mailman still brought me bills. I made the best chilli I've ever tasted and my neighbors cat disappeared. You gotta learn to just accept that life is fleeting and carve out your own space. Find your own joy. Bring your own good time. Because life doesn't owe you anything and moaning about it won't make things better.
- And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
  Racing around to come up behind you again.
  The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
  Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
- Pretty much as written.
  As one long breath with no breaks?

Don't be upsetti, eat some spaghetti.
Sounds silly but genuinely helps me not get too upset about things I don't hold much power over. At the end of the day I can still make a pot of spaghetti and enjoy it. I like spaghetti.

"Who I am is where I stand.
Where I stand is where I fall."
-Steven Moffat, Doctor Who
I have a lot of darkness in my head due to my upbringing. I'll never get it out. That doesn't stop me from being a good man, because who you are and what you'll be remembered as isn't your internal struggle, its what you chose to stand for in practice.
- Props to you for actually attributing the quote to the writer and not the character. It's a pet peeve of mine when people take profound sounding quotes and attribute it to a fictional character that never existed, never had real thoughts or opinions of their own
  
  I agree it's good to credit a writer, but the attribution should also include the character so the quote has context. For example, I would want there to be a distinction between a comment I made in real life and a line I wrote for a psychotic character to say.
  
  Thank you! I try to, even though at the end of the day the best you can do is the show runner that signed off on it, as you'll never really know who invented it in the writer's room.